Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju is a novelist and a doctoral candidate in African Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. Her debut novel, When Lemons Grow on Orange Trees, was (Self)-published in 2016 and was a festival book for 2017 edition of the Ake Book and Arts Festival. While doing her master’s degree at the Center for African Studies at Cambridge University, she ran the maiden editions of the African Literature Book Club series. Her academic work has been published in renowned journals in the Humanities and Social sciences such as JALA, Africa, and the LUCAS Bulletin.
Castro’s Ghost
When Lemons Grow on Orange Trees